The movie is directed by debutant filmmaker Amit Rai and Tushar is playing himself in the film. He will be sharing screen space with talented actors like Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra and Swati Chitnis.
Talking about the movie and his on screen debut, the 50 year old actor told reporters, ”The story of the film is narrated beautifully by writer and director Amit Rai. He has mixed reality and fiction very convincingly. Since it promotes the principles of Mahatma Gandhi in current perspective, I agreed to be part of the film. It has been a different experience.”
"Road To Sangam" is set to release worldwide on January 29. It will emphasize on Bapu's ideology that, in a nation like India, all religions have to work together to take the country ahead.
The film has captured the attention of cinematic circles even before its release. In fact, the film has already won awards in three different international film festivals, including the Viewer’s Choice Award at MAMI.
Recently, the film won three awards at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival in the categories of Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Film Original Score and Best Foreign Film production Design.
Further, the film received a thunderous applause at the prestigious Cannes Film festival during its screening there.
Produced by Amit Chheda under the banner of Gypsy Films, 'Road to Sangam' is a mixture of reality and fiction to bring in the surreal influence of historic and contemporary ideas.
The story of the movie is woven around the last journey of Father of the Nation. In which urn of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes is discovered in a vault of a national bank as late as in 2000. Bapu's grandson Tushar decides to immerse the ashes in the Sangam at Allahabad. He wants to carry the procession on the same truck that had carried the great soul’s ashes in 1948.
A God fearing, devout and renowned Muslim mechanic named Hashmat Ullah (Paresh Rawal), is entrusted the job of repairing an old V8 Ford Engine, unaware that it was once used to carry the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi to immerse in the ‘Sangam’ of holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and invisible Saraswati. Its historic significance becomes Hashmat’s bane and salvage.
A powerful bomb explosion rocks his town, leading to the arrest of Muslim youths of his locality and Hashmat is caught in the vortex of this complex situation.
A strike to close shops and work is called by the prominent community leaders Mohammed Ali Kasuri (Om Puri) and Maulana Qureshi (Pavan Manhotra) to protest against the unjust treatment meted out to those arrested youths by the police.
The movie is quite impressive, it explores the psyche of a very important community of the Indian society as it also tries to understand their insecurities, apprehension, suffering and still holding an understanding to the call of their nation.
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